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In recognition of the commitment of our late colleague, Gill-Chin Lim, to the study of humanistic aspects of globalization, the ACSP Global Planners Educators Interest Group (GPEIG) established an award in his name: The GPEIG Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning.

This award is funded annually by the Consortium of Development Studies (CODS), which was founded by Dr. Gill-Chin Lim in 1982. The Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning recognizes superior scholarship in a doctoral dissertation completed by a student enrolled in an ACSP-member school.

This award provides cash grant of $1,000. The winner will be invited to present the award winning paper in a special Student Award Paper Session at the Annual Conference and ACSP will provide waived conference registration if the student is available to attend the conference to present the paper.

Deadline

The deadline for nomination is June 1 using the nomination form below.

Criteria & Evaluation

Requirements:

The student's Dissertation Committee chairperson jointly with the department chair or director of graduate studies must make the nomination.

Each Planning School will submit no more than one dissertation each year.

It is expected that submissions will be selected through a participatory faculty and student process.

The nominees must have received their degree in the two years preceding the deadline.

The award committee will evaluate the submissions based on:

Innovative scholarship and perspective that advance the understanding of the diverse processes of international planning in the global context, with a special focus on low-income countries of the “Global South;”

Creativity in exploring/proposing international planning alternatives;

Methodological rigor, including the extent and quality of original data collection and analysis, e) the strengths, relevance and applicability of the conclusions and/or recommendations; and,

Organization, structure, style, clarity, and originality.

Application

One file to be submitted using the form below must include:

The full dissertation (including table of contents and abstract);

Two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the chair of the nominee’s dissertation committee indicating why the nominated dissertation is deserving of the award; and official university document indicating the date of award of the degree.

Biography of Gill Chin-Lim

Gill Chin-Lim, served as dean of ISP from 1991-95, and was also the MSU Endowed Professor of Asian Studies in a Global Context, a professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Planning, Design and Construction, and director of the Program on Humanistic Globalization.

Lim earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Seoul National University (1969 and 1973), a master’s at Harvard in 1975, and a doctorate at Princeton in 1987. He specialized in strategic planning, policy analysis, and governance, publishing and lecturing on topics of comparative development, housing, environment, planning and decision making theories, and global education. Lim was the co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research and an international adviser for the Environmental Impact Assessment Review.

Prior to his work at MSU, Lim was a University of Illinois professor and administrator in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Institute for Government and Public Affairs. Before joining the Illinois faculty in 1985, Lim was an assistant professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1980-85. He also taught at Northwestern University, was a visiting professor at Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Environmental Studies and a visiting fellow at the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements.